I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small.… - Joe Armstrong

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I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about.

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Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.

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I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about. - Joe Armstrong

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